One down, one more to go

 Red Cherry having her treatment done.   

Phew! The counter is actually clear of clutter and clean enough not to dirty my pretty dress!

For the past 3 days, time flew by in a blur.  I was suddenly down with flu with no sniffles but lotsa coughing and tightening of my airway.  My doc must have been very kind or he has misheard me asking,"Can you please cover me for today?" as a plea for 2 days's rest.  Even the old doc is coughing so I guess it's the former!
I must have slept for more than 15 hours each day for the first 2 days of rest.  Then on the day of the planned leave, hubs is down with flu.  Lotsa of sniffles but no cough.  When a man is down with flu, oh man, he's like a big baby!  Actually worse, cos babies can't verbalise, yet.  Today we're still grounded cos it seems to have gotten worse.  I have no choice but to let him have the anti-viral tablets that costs more than $10 a pop.
"Here, this is from Dr Bryan, u better get well on these as it's more than $10 per tablet"
I peeled out the 1st and then started on the 2nd.
"What?!!" so this is like $30???!!!" said hapless hubs whom I think is considering that i keep the 2nd tablet.
"Aiya, just eat lah!"
The thing about hubs is that he doesn't seems to take to my medication well.  He slept for like 3 hours straight and woke up groggy, eyes throbbing.
But of cos, who wouldn't when one is cooped up in an airless room?? Don't blame it on the drugs.

Anyway, while he's out, I had nothing to do but to find my own entertainment.  Oh dear, this is but royal weekend!  There's nothing to watch on national TV except programmes on royalty!
Which got me feeling conscious of my unpolished skin and decided to do some facial pampering.  Hmmm.... which got me thinking, what's this time wasted doing nothing (sleeping is not nothing, mind you!)?
I shall do some cleaning up and tidying.
Why can't I relaxed doing nothing while having a mask on?
Well, 1 thing for sure is that now that we're fully fledged in a tiny hdb flat, parents aren't going to clean up after us, there is no dog to put the blame on for the messiness.  Boy, isn't the pressure great to present to friends and relatives a sparkling home when they come to visit?  While I know that most of my friends don't mind my college kids kinda living conditions, you know, books, mags everywhere, dishes unwashed, mailers on the dinning table,  I've heard comments that I certainly do not welcome on a few occasion when all I've done is to generously open my home. 
For the record, I love having mags and books within reach ALL the time.  Not doing dishes can't kill me so what's up with the dirty look (pun fully intended).
But that said, I do love the fren who did rolled up her sleeves and helped me with my kitchen malfunction.  It's a better place after she left.
My point is, as with a lot of other issues, if you can help, offer.  If you can't, please don't look at things so negatively without putting yourself in others' shoes.

Seed cards from Cargo Plant Love

Have you tried growing things from seed cards?  I haven't and this is the first!  I got Cargo Plant love lipsticks for a friend and myself online over a year ago.  The Plantlove range from Cargo is free from parabens, phthalates,synthetic fragrance, synthetic dyes and petro-chemicals.  The lipsticks are named after celebrities and the colours are quite pretty.  I've got a hot red (Maria) and something alot milder for friend (forgot the name of the colour).  One of reasons I got them, other than the fact that it's on sale, is that the packaging is eco-friendly and has wildflowers seeds embedded.  I finally got down to planting the seeds after I decided to pull out the bryophyllum which is becoming too much for me to handle.  I also planted Pangea's boxes which have basil seed embedded. I didn't manage to take pictures of Pangea's boxes or notes printed on the non-plant-able  cardboard cos hubs threw them away.

The pot with Plantlove has already sprouted while those with Pangea has only a few sprouted between the 2 pots planted.  I'm not sure if all the seedlings are from the seed cards as the soil was recycled from a big pot of bitter herb (good for sorethroat) that I uprooted some months ago (yes, I'm a plant killer).  I'm hoping that they are and I'm very curious to see how the wildflowers will turn out.  More so, I want some basil for my pesto!

Guess who?

 Introducing Kuma DeeDee and Princess Lilia

 Kuma Deedee is cheeky and loves photography.

 Princess Lilia loves anything in shades of purple and her new lavender filled comfy cushion

 Oh, and she loves to be photographed!  More than Momo who, by the way, just had a trim and rebonding done. Can you tell?

Hallo, Girls! And more

After CNY delays in postal service, everything seems to be coming altogether.  We've happily received the 4 new girls and the olympus trip!  Nicky Lad, Frosty Frock, Bohemian Peace and Aubrena.  I like Aubrena very much now, which is  a surprise as I thought Frosty might be my favourite.  May because she looks too precious to take out of the box and play.

And then there's more, I didn't even notice the little invaders/protectors until LB pointed them out.  Aubrena doesn't look too pleased though.

After a long break from sewing class

I took a long 2 months break from sewing class and just return for the 4th item of the syllabus.  We're supposed to do a blouse with collar and sleeves.  Both my sis and me chose the peter pan collar and gathered sleeves.  We're really running out of inspiration on the fabric to buy.  And I thought we were away from Chinatown long enough to have a fresh eye on the fabrics!  We decided to go for plain fabric this time as any prints can go dangerously wrong.  I picked up a nice pastel pink fabric which is written on the samples as silky cotton.  Feels very smooth and soft, reminds me of good high threadcount bedsheet :)  Somehow, I'm still not getting a vision of the blouse, except that there should be some details added, like maybe collar of a different colour, printed or adding lace somewhere?  After some googling, I think I may be getting somewhere with this combo:

Hey, do you think you can let me out?

1st to arrive from The BAY :)

Craft it Forward!

A good friend, SP, invited friends to join this movement.  I thought it'll be a good idea as I've been lagging off crafting in any form for a loooong time.  It didn't help that I haven't been to sewing class for just as long.  This should set me on the right track again!
So here's the deal:
Via Simplypeaceable's blog via Brigette’s blog via Ginger Urchin’s blog post:

I promise to send something handmade to the first 5 people who leave a comment here. They in turn must post this statement and send something they make to the first 5 people who comment on their blog post.The only other rules are that:
1) it must be handmade by you and,
2) it must be sent to your 5 people sometime within 2011.

 Join me and don't be shy, experience not needed ;)